Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1857 — Give the Devil his Due. [ARTICLE]

Give the Devil his Due.

In justice to a villain, nagied Edward Hawkins, who committed nu--1 meroiis murders and married nuitnerous women, and who' was hung ! ia Estill county., Kentucky, on Friday | last, for the killing of two officers, j the Louisville Democrat publishes a letter from the culprit the day he' was hanged. He writes to correct several “ inaccuracies ” in an ar^i-1 ele in the Democrat : “ Your next error is—dhdt all my wives are alive; alas 1 one of them, young, beautiful and lovely as Bhe, was, committed suicide oh account j of the enormous deception 1 had practiced upon her v “ Your next error is—that I numbered ‘ my'murdered victims by the half dozen ; I ha ve only' murdered four persons in my life. I have married the six women as-stated-in your articli. I hope you mil correct the: above named errors,l or give this, piece a place in your paper." JPSTTIie Governor General of Canada j i and suit left for England by the steam-; ship North American. I;